Integrated module for an apparatus from lighting, sound, video or special effects engineering for providing control by means of an ethernet connection

An ethernet device connector built-in module for a controllable apparatus for at least one of lighting, sound, video or special effects, the ethernet connector built-in module being configured to be installed into the apparatus as a pre-manufactured physical component, the ethernet connector built-in module comprising:

• a fastening provision for providing an installation of the ethernet device connector built-in module on a housing of the apparatus;
• a double device connector having two external plug-in locations provided by a common flange element and each external plug-in location serving-when the ethernet device connector built-in module is in an installed state in the apparatus—to plug in an ethernet cable connector in order to incorporate the apparatus in a chain of a plurality of apparatuses serially connected by ethernet,
• a distributor component arranged on a printed circuit board of the ethernet device connector built-in module and configured to distribute a data signal supplied by one of the two external plug-in locations to the other one of the two external plug-in locations and to an ethernet contact interface on the printed circuit board, with the distributor component being connected via conductor tracks on the printed circuit board to the ethernet contact interface and the ethernet contact interface having mechanically contactable contacts, or contacts contactable by soldering, that provide a connection, in an interior of the apparatus, of the printed circuit board to control electronics of the apparatus for controlling the apparatus.